I write this post as to maybe generate a discussion on how the efforts could be concentrated and a new direction taken.
User interfaces are hard, especially if they're for the general public. Empirical testing helps.
Maybe we should start with what sort of things you personally would like to learn.
Just my opinion, but I think Eliezer's posts are what they are because he doesn't just want to say "here is how to be rational", he wants to give convincing arguments for why rationality makes sense. Not only does this show more respect for his readers' minds, it improves the odds that their understanding of rationality will resemble his. I'm hoping that there will be good ways of explaining rationality to people of average intelligence, but (at least in this community) this isn't close to being developed yet.
For the fun of it, is mathematics invented or discovered? If discovered, what sort of things are being explored? If invented, why is there so much commonality of results?
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Thanks for the shoutout!
I recognize the title could be more informative. At the same time I believe it says what is important.
I believe in a deity, I believe in mathematical entities in the same way.
The community of LessWrong (from whenceforth: LessWrong) is deeply interesting to me, appearing as a semi-organized atheist, reductionist community.
LessWrong seems very interested in promoting rationality, which I applaud. The effort does seem scattered, though, and this is the reason I post.
One has Eliezer's website with some interesting posts. The same of this community. The community links to some posts when you are coming for the first time into it, and you also have a filter for top posts. One has the blog. And recently, the center for modern rationality (in the same page as harrypoter fanfiction about rationality).
The point being there is no defined roadmap to go from AIC (average irrational chump to make an analogy to Game - which also seems to come up around quite a bit) to RA (again, rationality artist).
I write this post as to maybe generate a discussion on how the efforts could be concentrated and a new direction taken.
Should the creation of the Center for Modern Rationality envision this same concentration, this post may and should be disregard.
If it does not, then I leave it to your consideration.
Hang.